Election Night Results - NT Election Results 2008
History making vote for The Greens
With election night figures in, the Greens in the NT have recorded an average 15.9% across the seats they contested and their highest ever Territory wide vote.
In Nightcliff Emma Young polled a stunning 23.6%, up from 15.7% in 2005 and the highest Greens primary vote ever in the NT! Emma Young said "It is a great result. With one in four voters choosing the Greens over the old parties whichever one forms government would do well to consider carefully the Greens policies favoured by voters.'
In Braitling, a seat contested for the first time, Greens Jane Clark outpolled Labor by 3.5%, winning 14.8% of the primary vote to Labor's 11% (also outpolling a Lorraine Braham-backed-Independent candidate) and came second on the primary vote count to the CLP. This is the first time the Greens have outpolled Labor in an NT election.
In Greatorex Lenny Aronsten polled 18.4%, just 1% behind the ALP candidate. In the Sadadeen Booth Greens outpolled the ALP gaining 20.4% of the primary vote!
In Port Darwin, another seat contested for the first time, Gary Abbott campaigned on protecting Darwin Harbour and polled a strong 15.6%. In Araluen Linda Chellew polled 13.5% just behind ALP government staffer John Gaynor (up from 9.5% in 2005).
In Daly Dave Pollock polled 7.9% in a field of four with landclearing a strong focus (almost double the 2005 result). In Alice Springs where the opposition to the Angela Pamela Uranium Licence was a strong feature of our campaign across the three seats the Greens matched the ALP vote. On the day the Greens beat the ALP in the polling booths in the North (Braitling), South (Yirara), East (Sadadeen) and West (Living Waters) and came very close in the other two.
Jane Clark Greens candidate for Braitling said;
"The ALP got a thumping in Alice Springs and the Greens vote more than doubled to 15.62% across the three Alice seats due in large part to Henderson's pushing the AP Uranium proposal onto Alice without any proper consideration of the impacts."
"The Mines Minister looks to have lost his seat and the people of Alice Springs expect his replacement, from whichever party forms government, to reject this short-sighted proposal, which threatens the health and wellbeing of Alice Springs residents."
"With no Independents and double digit swings against the ALP candidates, The Greens are now the only credible alternative to the CLP in Alice Springs."
Contact Jane Clark 0417864935
Seat by Seat Results: http://www.abc.net.au/elections/nt/2008/
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Authorised by Derek Schild for The Greens NT, 12 Mills St, Alice Springs NT
posted by Jane Clark @ 2:52 AM
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